How would you describe the colour Orange to a blind person?

Question

Some great answers, thanx guys : )
To you insensitive prats - get a life!!!

Answer 1

Refreshing, bright and happy. Let them taste an orange, a good orange.

Answer 2

I would describe it as the feeling of warmth when the sun is on your skin.

I had sort of the opposite situation in that my son was deaf. It was easy to show him things and then show him the sign... but how do you explain to a deaf person what emotions are. Like grief, jealousy, even love.

I am always amazed by Helen Keller... being both deaf and blind. How did she do it?? But, I will also tell you that I read that Helen Keller once said that if she could chose to be deaf or blind... she would choose to be blind. She said when you are blind you lose "things" like trees, a table, etc. But when you are deaf you lose "people" because you can't communicate with them.

Your question was interesting. Hope I didn't ramble!

Answer 3

Yeah, same as the first guy. A mix of red and yellow. However, if they are blind how will they know what those colours are???
So I would say a very hot colour and has been tinged with the yellow mixes of the Sun. If you use feelings instead of just words it would be easier for them to depict the colour of orange.

Answer 4

You can't. My boyfriend is blind and he says the color association thing is really meaningless. He has no visual reference for color at all and it's just does not exist. The taste of an orange is not related to the color at all because he says his orange t-shirt, for example, does not taste like the fruit so how then can he put meaning to the color of the shirt? He says it is basically impossible for sighted people to understand the concept of no visual reference whatsoever.

Answer 5

Fresh like the taste of an orange and warm like the feeling of the sun on your face.

Answer 6

I would hand them an orange, and let them tell me how it feels, tastes, smells, they will have a multi-dimensional description of the colour that way, as that is how they identify the world without being able to see.

Answer 7

Orange is the colour of fruitfullness and fulfillment, an orange, when ripe is juicy, delicious and yummy.

Orange is sometimes the feeling that you get when you are sick. When the orange is not quite ripe enough to be so delicious.

Answer 8

I would describe it as like feeling the sunshine on your face when it just rises in the morning while the air around is still cool.

Answer 9

have them hold an orange and tell them to think of hot colors like what they would look like, red,orange like the sun its bright not a duel color and looks like the sun maybe they can see what the color red is when they look into the sun because we can see re-dish orange if we would close our eyes and look at the sun try it it just might work.

Answer 10

Chris Evans

Answer 11

it's hard enough trying to rhyme a word in the english language with orange and describing it will be so much harder